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Scientists have demonstrated the emergence of a new strain of the Corona virus in European countries in recent months.
There is no precise information yet on the severity of this strain. But studying it is important to understand mutations and the ways in which infection is spread.
This is stated in an article published by Swiss and Spanish experts in the scientific journal medRxiv Library.
The authors of the article studied the genetic sequences of the genome of the virus that infected the Europeans. They concluded that 80% of Europeans had an unusual strain and named it 20A.EU1. According to Russia Today.
And that strain appeared, according to scientists, this summer in Spain. And currently it has spread to 12 European countries, in addition to Hong Kong and New Zealand.
Doctors currently register this strain in 90% of the British infected with the Corona virus, 60% of the Irish and 30-40% of the Swiss and Dutch.
It should be noted that there is no evidence that mutations in the coronavirus have caused its rapid spread around the world.
University of Basel professor Amma Hoodcraft said that the rapid outbreak of the 20A.EU1 strain does not at all mean that it has caused an increase in the number of coronavirus infections in Europe.
Scientists assumed that the new strain of Corona virus spread easily after canceling most precautionary measures in European countries.
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